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SAGE Young Scholars

FPSP, in collaboration with SAGE Publications, is pleased to award the SAGE Young Scholars Awards. These awards recognize outstanding young researchers in personality and social psychology. The awardees will receive a one-time award of $5,000 to be used at their discretion for research, study, or conference travel-related purposes, as well as a complimentary one-year SPSP membership. At least five awards are presented each year to young scholars representative of the broad spectrum of personality and social psychology research areas.

Award Info

Description

About the Award

The Sage Young Scholar Awards recognize outstanding achievements by young scholars who are early in their research careers. The awards are intended to provide these scholars with funds that can be flexibly applied in extending their work in new and exciting directions. Previous recipients of this award have gone on to positions of intellectual leadership in the field. Because these awards are highly sought after, receiving a Sage Young Scholar Award is recognition of both accomplishment and potential.

About the Foundation for Personality and Social Psychology

The Foundation for Personality and Social Psychology has been established to raise funds and sponsor philanthropic activities advancing the discipline. It focuses on development and fundraising, seeking gifts and donations to fund forward-looking and long-term activities that would augment and broaden the vigor of personality and social psychology.

Requirements

Candidates must be between 3 to 7 years into their first academic faculty position (but not including post-doctoral training) by October of the year in which they are nominated. Previous winners may not be renominated.

Candidates should have demonstrated exceptional individual achievements in social and/or personality psychology (broadly defined), conducting research that places them at the forefront of their peers. Criteria include innovation, creativity, and potential to make a significant impact on the field.

How to Apply

Submission Criteria

Individuals may self-nominate or be nominated by others

A two page research statement describing the candidate's current and future research plans, highlighting the work's creativity and potential impact on the field.

A statement (up to 200 words) regarding how the Sage Young Scholar Award would encourage their development as a future leader of the field.

The nominee’s current vita in electronic format.

How to Submit

Submissions for the 2019 award will be accepted until October 15, 2018.

2018

Mark Brandt is an associate professor at Tilburg University. His research examines how ideological and moral beliefs – such as political ideology, religious fundamentalism, and moral conviction – influence attitudes and behaviors and provide people with meaning.

Molly Crockett is an assistant professor of psychology at Yale University and a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Neuroethics. She completed her PhD in experimental psychology at the University of Cambridge. Her research investigates the psychological and neural mechanisms of moral judgment, learning, and decision-making.

Michael Kraus is a father, basketball fan, and serious coffee drinker who works at the Yale University, School of Management. His current research explores the behaviors and emotional states that perpetuate economic and social inequality. University life is a privilege and a constant source of joy for Michael.

Nour Kteily is a psychologist at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. His research examines the psychological mechanisms that influence the stability of social hierarchy and shape conflict between groups in society.

Kristin Laurin’s research investigates how an individual’s goals and motivations interact with their beliefs and ideologies. Under that general theme, she has investigated beliefs about politics, religion, and morality, both in terms of their motivational underpinnings, and how they influence a person’s ability to self-regulate in pursuit of important goals.

Ryne Sherman received his PhD from the University of California, Riverside in 2011 and is an associate professor of psychology at Texas Tech University. His research concerns person-situation transactions, that is, how people navigate their social worlds on a daily basis. As part of his research, he has pioneered the use of wearable cameras in studying daily life.

Erica Slotter is an associate professor of psychology at Villanova University. She received her PhD from Northwestern University in 2011. Her work focuses on the social factors that influence identity. In particular, she examines how various social role transitions can influence the content and clarity of an individual’s self-concept.

Joshua Tybur is an associate professor in the Department of Experimental and Applied Psychology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His work, which is often inspired by an evolutionary perspective, aims to better understand how people avoid infectious disease, select versus avoid potential mates, and advance personal interests via moral condemnation.

2017

Erika Carlson is an assistant professor at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on identifying and understanding the bright spots and blind spots in self- and other-perception as well as if self- and other-knowledge is adaptive.

Mina Cikara is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. She adopts an interdisciplinary approach drawing on theory and methods from psychology and cognitive neuroscience to understand how the mind, brain, and behavior change when the social context shifts from “me and you” to “us and them.”

Jesse Graham is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Southern California. He got his PhD in 2010 at U.Virginia, and before that he futzed around at Harvard Divinity School and U.Chicago. Jesse studies the moral, political, and religious convictions that bind us together and tear us apart.

Kurt Gray is an Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina who studies the cryptic minds of machines, animals, God, and people. His work has helped to reveal the basis of morality, social groups, and religious belief. He would love you to buy a copy of “The Mind Club.”

Andrew Todd is an Assistant Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Iowa. He received his PhD from Northwestern University and was a postdoc at the University of Cologne. His research focuses on perspective taking and mental-state reasoning, automatic processes in social judgment, and intergroup bias.

Liane Young is an associate professor of psychology at Boston College. She received her BA in philosophy in 2004 and her PhD in psychology in 2008 from Harvard. She studies moral cognition using methods from social psychology and neuroscience. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, John Templeton Foundation, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and Dana Foundation.

Jamil Zaki is an assistant professor of psychology at Stanford University. His research examines the neural bases of social cognition and behavior: and especially how people understand and respond to each other’s emotions. This work spans a number of domains, including empathy, social influence, and prosocial behavior (see ssnl.stanford.edu for details).

2016

Wiebke Bleidorn is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Davis. She received a PhD in Psychology at Bielefeld University, Germany in 2010 and was an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. Dr. Bleidorn’s research examines the conditions, mechanisms, and consequences of personality change.

Jon Freeman is Assistant Professor of Psychology at NYU. He received his Ph.D. from Tufts and was previously on the faculty at Dartmouth. He studies split-second social perception using brain- and behavior-based techniques, examining the interplay of visual perception and social cognition in how we categorize others and infer personality traits and emotion.

Ulrich Orth is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Bern. He completed his PhD at the University of Trier, was a postdoc at University of Bern and UC Davis, and was an assistant professor at University of Basel. His research focuses on self-esteem development across the lifespan, the link between low self-esteem and depression, and the consequences of self-esteem for important life domains such as relationships, work, and health. In 2013, he received the William Stern Award for Personality Psychology from the German Psychological Society.

Cheryl Wakslak is an assistant professor of management and organization at the University of Southern California. She earned her PhD in social psychology from NYU in 2008. Her research explores the way people use different styles of thinking to help them connect with those closer to them and those farther away.

Adam Waytz is a psychologist at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management who studies how people think about minds. He looks at when we attribute or deny mental states to other entities, and the moral and ethical implications of these processes.

2015

Clayton Critcher is an Assistant Professor of Marketing, Cognitive Science, and Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business. He received a PhD in social and personality psychology from Cornell University in 2010, and an AB in psychology from Yale University in 2005. He works in various areas—self and identity, judgment and decision making, moral psychology, and social cognition—all toward an understanding of how people reason about and behave in ambiguous and challenging social, economic, political, and moral settings. He was the 2014 winner of the Carol D. Soc Distinguished Graduate Mentoring Award.

Emily Impett is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto Mississauga. She completed her PhD in Social Psychology at UCLA and completed two postdocs, the most recent at UC Berkeley. Dr. Impett applies and blends social psychological theories of close relationships and sexuality to understand when “giving” to a partner—both inside and outside of the bedroom—help versus harm relationships. Her research has been supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation, and the Canadian Foundation for Innovation, and she has received several research awards, including an award for Early Career Achievement from the International Association for Relationship Research.

Nick Rule is assistant professor of psychology and Canada Research Chair in Social Perception and Cognition at the University of Toronto. He received a PhD in 2010 from Tufts University under the mentorship of Nalini Ambady and an AB from Dartmouth College in 2004 where he worked with Neil Macrae. He was the 2013 recipient of the International Social Cognition Network’s Early Career Award and the Ministry of Research and Innovation of Ontario’s Early Researcher Award in 2012. His research focuses on processes and outcomes related to person perception, ranging from micro-level phenomena (brain responses) to macro-level phenomena (cultural differences).

Jenessa Shapiro is an Associate Professor of Psychology and Management at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She received her PhD in Social Psychology in 2008 from Arizona State University, working with Steven Neuberg. Dr. Shapiro's research attempts to understand when and why people express vs. conceal prejudices. In addition, she explores the experience of being a target of prejudice, examining topics such as multiple forms of stereotype threat and relations between members of different minority groups. Dr. Shapiro's research has been supported by over $2.8 million in grant dollars from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the John Templeton Foundation, and the Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program.

Jay Van Bavel is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at New York University. He completed his PhD in Psychology at the University of Toronto and a postdoc at The Ohio State University. Dr. Van Bavel blends theory and methods from social psychology and cognitive neuroscience to study how group identities, moral values, and political beliefs alter our perceptions and evaluations. His research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, and the John Templeton Foundation, and received several research awards, including the Early Career Award for Distinguished Contributions in Social Neuroscience.

2014

Paul Eastwick

Jochen Gebauer

Edward Lemay

Kristina Olson

Tessa West

2013

Joan Chiao

Wilhelm Hoffman

Ethan Kross

Elizabeth Paluck

Greg Walton

2012

Colin DeYoung

Naomi Eisenberger

Vladas Griskevicius

Mark J. Landau

Michael I. Norton

2011

Emily Balcetis

C. Nathan DeWall

Kentaro Fujita

Omri Gillath

Jason P. Mitchell

Simine Vazire

2010

Reginald Adams

William Cunningham

Sally Dickerson

Grainne Fitzsimmons

Aaron Kay

2009

David Amodio

Wendy Berry Mendes

Cheryl Kaiser

Kurt Hugenberg

David Sherman

Alexander Todorov

2008

Eli Finkel

Virginia Kwan

Jon Maner

B. Keith Payne

Kathleen Vohs

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